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Forms of Arsenic Concentration in Sulfide-Free Endogenic Pb–Zn–Sb Ores of the Pelagonian Massif, Republic of North Macedonia

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The chemical composition, substitutions, and zoning of minerals that concentrate arsenic in specific sulfide-free ore-bearing metasomatic rocks at the contact of the Early Paleozoic metarhyolites and aporhyolite schists with dolomite marbles and baryte schists in the Pelagonian massif, near the village of Nežilivo, Republic of North Macedonia, have been studied. These metasomatic rocks are enriched in chalcophile elements (Zn, As, Sb, Pb, Cu), which occur in oxides and oxysalts. Partitioning mechanisms of various constituents (Mg, Zn, Cu, Ca, Pb, Y, Ln, F, OH) between associated arsenates, As-bearing phosphates and mottramite, are discussed.

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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 17-05-00179).

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  1. Institute of Experimental Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432, Chernogolovka, Moscow Oblast, Russia

    V. N. Ermolaeva & D. A. Varlamov

  2. Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    V. N. Ermolaeva

  3. Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 142432, Chernogolovka, Moscow Oblast, Russia

    D. A. Varlamov & N. V. Chukanov

  4. Geological Faculty, Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    N. V. Chukanov

  5. Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Saint Cyril and Methodius University, 1000, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

    S. Jančev

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Ermolaeva, V.N., Varlamov, D.A., Chukanov, N.V. et al. Forms of Arsenic Concentration in Sulfide-Free Endogenic Pb–Zn–Sb Ores of the Pelagonian Massif, Republic of North Macedonia. Geol. Ore Deposits 61, 782–790 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701519080038

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